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This week's digest contains 3 messages:

* Cambridge University Press announces preliminary 2010 journals pricing
* Upcoming classes from Lyrasis
* Project MUSE News: New titles, updates for 2010; back issues expansion

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Message #1:

Subject: Cambridge University Press announces preliminary 2010 journals
pricing
From: Susan Soule <ssoule@cambridge.org>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:50:03 -0400

With apologies for cross-posting

Cambridge University Press is pleased to announce that a preliminary
version of our 2010 journal subscription rates is now available at:

http://journals.cambridge.org/2010prices

Please note the following highlights for 2010:

*8 new titles confirmed thus far:

Archaeological Reports
Britannia
Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease
Journal of Hellenic Studies
The Journal of Roman Studies
Law and History Review
Revista de Historia Economica/Journal of Iberian and Latin American History
Speculum

*Journal ceasing publication: Progress in Neurotherapeutics and
Neuropsychopharmacology

*Journals moving to other publishers as of 2010:

BioSocieties – Palgrave
Journal of Systematic Palaeontology – Taylor & Francis
Systematics and Biodiversity – Taylor & Francis

*Increased frequency and/or pages published for:

Ageing and Society - 10% increase in pages
AI EDAM - 15% increase in pages
International Psychogeriatrics - from 6 to 8 issues a year
Journal of American Studies - from 3 to 4 issues a year, and 10% increase
in pages
Journal of Institutional Economics - from 3 to 4 issues a year
Knowledge Engineering Review - 25% increase in pages
Nordic Journal of Linguistics - from 2 to 3 issues a year
Review of International Studies - over 15% increase in pages

For further information, please contact:

In the Americas: ssoule@cambridge.org
Elsewhere in the world: lboyle@cambridge.org

Thank you.

Susan Soule
Journals Marketing Manager
Cambridge University Press, Americas
ssoule@cambridge.org

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Message #2:

Subject: Upcoming classes from Lyrasis
From: Marlee Givens <marlee.givens@lyrasis.org>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:29:48 -0400

Please excuse cross-posting.

The following classes will be brought to you soon by Lyrasis, online and
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Management 101: What is Management? (Live Online)

07/21/2009, 2:00pm-4:00pm EST

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07/22/2009, 10:00am-12:00pm EST

FRBR Introduction and Overview (Live Online)

07/22/2009, 10:00am-12:00pm EST

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Message #3:

Subject: Project MUSE News: New titles, updates for 2010; back issues
expansion
From: "Melanie Schaffner" <melanie@muse.jhu.edu>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:54:12 -0400 (EDT)

PROJECT MUSE ANNOUNCES NEW TITLES, COLLECTION UPDATES, PRICES FOR 2010

Expansion of back issue program to provide complete run of content from
many titles

Project MUSE is pleased to announce that 11 new titles have been confirmed
to date for addition to its online journal collections in 2010. Contracts
are pending with several new publishers and MUSE expects to announce up to
five additional titles for next year. List pricing for the journal
collections for 2010 has also been set. MUSE is also excited to expand its
pilot program incorporating previous volumes of MUSE titles into the
collection holdings. Back issues from over 60 journal titles will be made
available at no additional cost to subscribers over a four-year period
beginning in 2010.

The following journals are confirmed to join MUSE in 2010:
American Book Review
Black Camera: a micro journal of black film studies
Black Music Research Journal
Canadian Theatre Review
Collaborative Anthropologies
Hispania: a journal devoted to the interests of the teaching of Spanish
and Portuguese
Journal of Modern Periodical Studies
Native South
Pennsylvania History: a journal of Mid-Atlantic studies
Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences
Studies in American Fiction

In light of current economic conditions, MUSE is strictly moderating the
growth of the journal collections for 2010, resulting in significantly
smaller price increases than in previous years. The 2010 price for the
Premium Collection, MUSE's flagship journal collection, represents an
increase of only 6%, half that of previous years' increases. All journals
joining MUSE for 2010 will be included in the Premium Collection.

Prices for the Project MUSE Standard, Basic Research, Basic College, and
Humanities collections are increasing by only 4%. Additional titles will
be included in each of these collections for 2010, as follows:

Standard Collection:
The Middle East Journal
Sewanee Review
Studies in the Novel

Basic Research Collection:
American Music
Classical World
Comparative Drama

Basic College Collection:
American Music
Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
Transactions of the American Philological Association

Humanities Collection:
Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum
La corónica: a journal of medieval Spanish language, literature and
cultural studies
Journal of Modern Greek Studies
Theory & Event
U.S. Catholic Historian

The price for the MUSE Social Sciences Collection will remain flat from
2009 as a result of the attrition of some titles and the addition of very
few titles in this area for 2010. Project MUSE continues to offer tiered
pricing based upon institutional Carnegie classification and relative
usage for North America, and on World Bank country income classes and
institutional programming for the rest of the world.

One title, River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative, will cease to
contribute new content to Project MUSE after 2009. The title will no
longer be published by MUSE participating publisher, the University of
Nebraska Press.

BACK ISSUES TO BE ADDED

MUSE will be incorporating back issues of many journals, adding value to
our collections and enhanced depth to users' research experience. During
the pilot phase of this initiative, MUSE added back issues of selected
journals published by the Johns Hopkins University Press, in several cases
resulting in the complete run of a title being made available online.
Starting in July 2010 and continuing over the next three years, MUSE will
be adding a significant number of back issues from other publishers.
Through a cost-sharing arrangement with the participating titles, MUSE is
able to make the back issue content available without an increase in cost
to subscribers.

During the second half of 2010, MUSE expects to launch back issues for
these titles:
Biography (full run)
English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920
Ethics and the Environment
The Henry James Review (full run)
Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved (full run)
Journal of Modern Greek Studies (full run)
Journal of Women's History (full run)
Legacy (full run)
L'esprit Createur
Race/Ethnicity (full run)
Rhetoric and Public Affairs (full run)
Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture
Theatre Topics (full run)

Back issues for more than 50 other titles are expected to launch in the
subsequent three years (2011-2013), with batches of back issue content
released up to three times per year, grouped by subjects. Over half will
result in full runs for the journal being available in MUSE. Any MUSE
journal for which archival content is not already available in JSTOR may
participate in the back issue program at the publisher’s choice. Each
title’s back issues will be accessible by any subscriber to a collection
that includes the title.

Additional announcements regarding new MUSE titles and publishers will be
made in the coming months, and complete details, including pricing
information, will be available on the MUSE web site by mid-July. Specific
information regarding 2010 institutional renewals will be distributed to
current subscribers and consortium affiliates in July and August;
libraries that subscribe via a consortial arrangement should inquire about
renewal options with their consortium offices. Questions regarding MUSE's
2010 journal collections and subscription offerings may be directed to
muse@press.jhu.edu.

Melanie Schaffner
Marketing and Sales Manager, Project MUSE
The Johns Hopkins University Press
2715 N Charles St.
Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
P 410-516-3846
F 410-516-3846
melanie@muse.jhu.edu